By Genalyn D. Kabiling and Samuel P. Medenilla President Duterte is planning to offer some assistance to drug convict Mary Jane Veloso when he travels to Indonesia next week. The President is scheduled to visit Indonesia on September 8 and 9 as part of his maiden three-nation swing in Asia next week. “Meron rin tayong preso doon marami, drugs, pati si Veloso… I’m praying that I could do something for her,” the President said in a press conference after welcoming Filipino workers repatriated from Saudi Arabia yesterday at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport (NAIA). Before flying to Indonesia, the President will make a working visit to Brunei and attend the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in Laos. This will be his first international travel since he assumed power last June 30. Veloso, a Filipina worker, was sentenced to death for drug trafficking in Indonesia in 2010. She however claimed [...]
